Editing Olmeca

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
{{About||the ancient people|Olmec|the tequila brand|Olmeca Tequila}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Olmeca recta imported from iNaturalist photo 65579308 on 26 December 2023.jpg
| image_caption = ''Olmeca recta''
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Olmeca
| authority = [[Thomas Robert Soderstrom|Soderstr.]] 1982
| type_species_authority = [[Thomas Robert Soderstrom|Soderstr.]] 1982
| type_species = ''[[Olmeca reflexa]]''
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=i/>
| synonyms = *''Olmeca'' <small>[[Thomas Robert Soderstrom|Soderstr.]] 1981, not validly published</small>|
}}

'''''Olmeca''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Mesoamerican]] [[bamboo]] in the [[Poaceae|grass family]].<ref name=i>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036508 Tropicos, ''Olmeca'' Soderstr.]</ref><ref name=h>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13039175#page/171/mode/1up Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1982.  Phytologia 51(2): 161.]</ref>

''Olmeca'' is the only known New World bamboo having large fleshy fruits. It also has [[rhizome]]s with long necks and very open clumps.<ref>Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1981. American Journal of Botany 68: 1361-1373</ref>

The genus is named for the [[Olmec]] peoples of southern [[Mexico]], who thrived in southern [[Mexico]] in the first millennium [[BCE]].<ref name=h/><ref>{{cite book |author=Diehl, Richard  |authorlink=Richard Diehl |year=2004 |title=The Olmecs: America's First Civilization |url=https://archive.org/details/olmecsamericasfi0000dieh  |url-access=registration  |series=Ancient peoples and places series|publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]] |location=London |isbn=0-500-02119-8 |oclc=56746987}}</ref>

;Species<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=426139 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo, Sosa, Victoria, & Mejía-Saules, M. Teresa. 2011.  Molecular phylogenetics of the Mesoamerican bamboo ''Olmeca'' (Poaceae, Bambuseae): Implications for taxonomy. Taxon 60(1): 89–98.</ref><ref>Soreng, R. J., G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, E. J. Judziewicz, T. S. Filgueiras & O. Morrone. 2003 and onwards. On-line taxonomic novelties and updates, distributional additions and corrections, and editorial changes since the four published volumes of the Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) published in Contributions from the United States National Herbarium vols. 39, 41, 46, and 48. http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG:. In R. J. Soreng, G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, T. S. Filgueiras, E. J. Judziewicz & O. Morrone (eds.), Internet Catalogue of New World Grasses. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis</ref>
* ''[[Olmeca clarkiae]]'' <small>(Davidse & R.W.Pohl) Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés</small> - [[Chiapas]], [[Honduras]]
* ''[[Olmeca fulgor]]'' <small>(Soderstr.) Ruiz-Sanchez</small> - [[Oaxaca]]
* ''[[Olmeca recta]]'' <small>Soderstr.</small> - [[Veracruz]]
* ''[[Olmeca reflexa]]'' <small>Soderstr.</small> - [[Veracruz]], [[Oaxaca]], [[Chiapas]]
* ''[[Olmeca zapotecorum]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés</small> - [[Oaxaca]]

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[[Category:Bambusoideae genera]]
[[Category:Flora of Mexico]]
[[Category:Flora of Honduras]]
[[Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm]]
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